A 29-year-old bank teller stole more than $185,000 from a homeless customer who tried to deposit a garbage bag full of cash at a Wells Fargo branch in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, according to court filings and attorneys in the case.

"This definitely was the same kind of conduct that Wells was committing, but through Prudential," said one of the three whistle-blowers, Julie Han Broderick, an attorney and former co-head of Prudential's corporate investigations division...

LA just filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo alleging fraud. If bank policy is at fault, then this raises questions about possible misconduct in other states and/or with other banks. If so, there are very serious consequences.

Wells Fargo's investment in private prisons is just one of the banks' failures. It also lends money to payday loan companies and issues its own version of a payday loan that charges customers up to 274 percent interest. Wells

The move to lock out shareholders was unprecedented, according to organizers.Wells Fargo, assisted by dozens of Bay Area police, took the unprecedented step of locking more than 100 of its shareholders out of its annual meeting